Description:
"Parker is articulate and provocative, seeing the poetry in the ordinary and the wonderful in the world." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Parker offers some loose advice for living (give money to panhandlers whole-heartedly, because doing so means participating in 'the same divine economy that big-banged you into being'), but is at his best when poring over life's strange resonances...pays vivid homage to the beauty of the mundane." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
From the vertiginously talented James Parker, a collection of uproarious odes that show how to find gratitude in unexpected places.
Brief description: James Parker is a staff writer for The Atlantic. Since 2011, he has run the Black Seed Writers Group--a weekly writing workshop for homeless, transitional, and recently housed writers--and edited The Pilgrim, a literary magazine from the homeless community of downtown Boston. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Review Quotes: James Parker's book deserves an ode all its own--one that, like the odes it brings together, is apt, quirky, form-breaking, tradition-furthering, and celebratory all at once.--Paul Elie, author of Reinventing Bach